The city of Chicago is expected to pay more than $6.4 million to resolve two fatal police shooting lawsuits — one involving an unarmed teenager and another that sparked a review of how the city's Law Department handles litigation involving serious officer misconduct.

The city's Finance Committee on Monday is scheduled to consider paying $3.4 million to end a protracted legal battle with the family of Darius Pinex, a 27-year-old father of three who was shot during a traffic stop in 2011. Under the terms, the city would pay $2.37 million to Pinex's family and more than $1 million to the lawyers for his estate, according to sources, federal court filings and city documents.

The committee also will consider paying $3 million to the mother of Cedrick Chatman, a 17-year-old whose fatal shooting in January 2013 was caught on video. He was shot in the South Shore neighborhood after officers curbed the Dodge Charger he was suspected of taking in a carjacking.

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Chicago police officer Gildardo Sierra, left, and Darius Pinex.

Chicago police officer Gildardo Sierra, left, and Darius Pinex.

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The Chatman shooting video roiled Chicago when it was released in January. The footage showed two plainclothes officers pulling up to the sedan and captured Officer Kevin Fry firing several shots when Chatman fled the car on foot carrying what turned out to be a black iPhone box.

The video also led to a dispute inside the Independent Police Review Authority, the city agency that investigates police shootings, and allegedly cost investigating supervisor Lorenzo Davis his job. Davis has claimed his finding that the shooting was not justified was reversed over his objections, with IPRA eventually concluding the shooting was justified. Davis filed a federal lawsuit against IPRA; it was dismissed earlier this year, when a judge determined that Davis' refusal to change his finding was not protected free speech under the First Amendment.

Fry continues to serve as a Chicago police officer.

Law Department spokesman Bill McCaffrey declined to comment on the pending deals, saying the city does not discuss lawsuit settlements before they are presented to the Finance Committee. The city does not have insurance for such settlements, so taxpayers will foot the bill.

The total cost of the Pinex case — including the settlement amount, lawyers' fees for both sides and the cost of the Law Department review it prompted — is about $6 million.

"We are happy that the city has resolved this matter, for the opportunity this settlement provides for Darius' wonderful children," said Steve Greenberg, the attorney for the Pinex family. "And we are hopeful that the history of this case will bring about meaningful change."

A federal jury initially concluded that Officers Raoul Mosqueda and Gildardo Sierra were justified in shooting Pinex, but the case erupted in chaos in January when U.S. District Judge Edmond Chang found that a city lawyer had intentionally withheld crucial evidence and took the rare step of ordering a new trial.

(Warning: Graphic language) Jonathan Hadnott, left, and Gloria Pinex, whose son was fatally shot by Chicago police, discuss their cases and their experiences with city of Chicago lawyers who were chastised by judges for withholding evidence.

(Warning: Graphic language) Jonathan Hadnott, left, and Gloria Pinex, whose son was fatally shot by Chicago police, discuss their cases and their experiences with city of Chicago lawyers who were chastised by judges for withholding evidence.

Days after Chang's ruling, Emanuel hired longtime Chicago lawyer Dan Webb to conduct an outside review of the department.

Webb's seven-month inquiry — which cost taxpayers $1.6 million — found no other intentional misconduct, but his team recommended more than 50 reforms to address problems in the embattled department. Stephen Patton, Emanuel's hand-picked corporation counsel, also has instituted several new procedures, including a policy that drastically reduces the Police Department's role in collecting documents for litigation.

A Tribune analysis earlier this year of nearly 450 cases alleging police misconduct since Emanuel took office found that a federal judge has had to order the city to turn over potential evidence in nearly 1 in every 5 cases.

In seven of those cases, the city's conduct was found to be so inappropriate that federal judges took the unusual step of handing down sanctions. Chang has twice made the even rarer move of throwing out jury verdicts that had favored the city and ordering new trials.

During the Pinex trial, Mosqueda and Sierra testified that an emergency dispatch for a previous shooting led them to conduct a "high-risk" traffic stop on Pinex's vehicle, blinding the driver with the spotlight on their marked squad car and exiting with guns drawn.

The stop turned deadly when Pinex, the officers alleged, refused orders and slammed his car in reverse, throwing his passenger from the car and nearly running over Mosqueda. Sierra fired at least eight shots at the vehicle as it backed into a light pole. Mosqueda then fired multiple times from the passenger side, fatally striking Pinex in the head, court records show. A loaded pistol was later found underneath the driver's seat.

Before the lawsuit was filed, a Law Department paralegal had asked the city's Office of Emergency Management and Communications to save radio calls from the night of the shooting. OEMC provided a call about a pursuit in Zone 8 but did not turn over any such audio from Zone 6, where the officers were working, court records show.

In the middle of the trial, though, a city attorney told Chang that 30 minutes of Zone 6 audio had been sent to a police sergeant in 2011.

Marsh, who at the time did not know what was on the recording, first said he had learned about the recording a few days earlier, then later said it had been the week before trial.

When the call was turned over, the Zone 6 audio did not mention a shooting. That undermined the officers' testimony.

The jury found in the officers' favor, even though it was told that the city had improperly withheld the call from Pinex's attorneys. After months of post-trial investigation, Chang ruled that the city's conduct was egregious enough to warrant a new trial and order the city to pay Pinex's lawyers' fees for the first trial.

Jordan Marsh, the city attorney accused of withholding the evidence, resigned immediately after Chang's ruling.

Mosqueda is still a Chicago police officer. Sierra resigned from the department in 2015.

The Tribune has previously reported on Sierra's involvement in three shootings, two of them fatal, during a six-month span. In the other fatal shooting, captured on a police dashboard camera, Sierra fired 16 shots at Flint Farmer, including three into his back as he lay prone on the ground. Sierra said he mistook a cellphone for a gun. The city settled a lawsuit by Farmer's family for $4.1 million.